piping question

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <pan.2006.04.17.18.59.42.24490 at biggmatt.com>,
 Biggmatt <matt at biggmatt.com> wrote:

>The problem is that i want it to
>get the stdout as the program runs, not hold it all till it's
>finished.

This has been discussed before. If the program you're trying to control 
buffers its output and gives no option to disable that, then you're 
stuck with the way it works.